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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1900
Page
9
A partial OCR text fragment from a historical page shows garbled words and missing context. The readable bits mention possible names and places but no clear event or outcome to summarize into a full news item. The content is too damaged to identify a coherent story or date.
A brief item notes Eugene City Guard events for June on a Saturday. Details are limited in the readable text but indicate a schedule or alert involving the Eugene City Guard for that date.
The article urges construction of a Mackenzie River bridge at the Henderson ferry site for 10 600 dollars, excluding approaches, with ongoing road repairs needed in Lane County. It notes a surge in logging traffic and forthcoming quartz mining, warning that the road is deteriorating and may become impassable without summer repairs.
The Oregonian on June 7 forecasts fair and warmer weather with northerly winds. A sharp political note follows in the editorial, criticizing factional control of the Republican party in Multnomah County and urging accountability, describing internal strife as coercive and damaging to party integrity.
City Superintendent KEn Ressler is reelected for his work in Eugene public schools and the high school’s inauguration. The piece praises his modern methods, executive ability, and dedication, noting the school system aims to be the state’s best with Kea ler’s leadership and a strong board including J H Mc Clung, 8 B Kakin and EK Schwarzschild.
A Salem Journal report notes a strange shift as three local bankers who opposed Bryan in 1896 now support him in this year. The piece highlights the tension between professional politicians and public sentiment, suggesting bankers with substantial funds endorse Bryan despite party lines.
Britain seeks to prevent a war between Russia and Japan as diplomat Johnny Ball notes Russia holds the upper hand in the crisis. The article frames Great Britain’s cautious diplomacy and awareness of shifting power dynamics in the Far East.
The text argues that Russia favors diplomacy over war to curb its own ambitions. It warns that Russia’s rapid seizure and semi assimilation of Asiatic territory could alarm Europe. If Asiatic peoples fall under Russian control, its might could crush any European power in potential conflict.
Chinese soldiers decline to face the Boxers claiming the foe is aided by the devil. They say bullets drive opponents to flee, and fear the devil's influence on the other side. Oriental belief in a personal devil leads to propitiation yet prevents fighting the devil directly.
The Oregon returns show Eastern Oregon sheep men leaning Republican while Western Oregon in the first district remains near normal. The broad issue of holding new places carried the flag into an affirmative vote in the overall tally.
Farmers in Oregon were taxed ninety thousand dollars by the government at Portland for permission to buy sacks to ship their wheat. The duty was paid on four cargoes of grain sacks at the customs house.
A crank warns the Missouri governor via letters that failure to mobilize the militia against strikers will lead to his death. Officials acknowledge risks in a decisive but controversial response amid rising labor unrest.
The sawmill at Eugene will be rebuilt on a new lower coal site near Stinner's Butte. The location is convenient to the city and safeguarded from log loss during high water, promising safer operations.
School Superintendent Miller settles into the official seat with assurance that by the grace of the latest Oregon legislature his term begins July 2 and will run for four years.
A Ashland observer catalogs twenty three fraternal and benevolent secret societies in the town. The list covers major lodges and local orders reflecting civic life and mutual aid traditions.
In the House of Commons charges arise over a spurious article supplied to troops instead of the contract listed authentic beef. The dispute centers on misrepresentation in the supply chain and potential breach of military provisioning standards.
Grain crops promise abundant yields across Lane county as wheat prices advance. Growers look to profitable figures for their harvest with markets showing upward momentum and the potential for strong returns.
In Rio de Janeiro eighty-eight cases of plague were reported with twenty six fatalities. A United States naval squadron stationed there departed southwestward, moving away from the outbreak area.
Brooklyn staged Sunday school parades yesterday with sixty thousand children marching in line. Local organizers hailed the turnout as a showing of community faith and youth participation.
A northern city youth courting a girl finds her entire family takes turns entertaining him. After the father, eldest son, another sister, and even the mother and family cat rotate visits, the young man ends up embarrassed as the girl reveals the joke and he abandons his pursuit.
A Lewis ton Journal vignette describes Boston spires where angels with trumpets on high are mocked by architects as the Church of the Holy Beanblowers and the Church of the Holy Thermometer, plus a third as the Kindergarten Steeples. The piece lampoons lack of proportion in architectural taste.
A humorous tale follows a city aspirant who memorizes morals from books and almanacs to seize a chance with a runaway horse. He crashes into a gutter, ends up in a hospital, and later in a pledge to stop a fire marshal backfires. The piece ends with a cautionary moral on recognizing opportunities.
A Capitol Hill man bonds with a gas bill dispute over months of high usage. He vows to punish the gas company, reels from rising charges, and cancels a move when a lower bill appears. His wife falls ill delaying relocation as the tale ends with neighbors recalling a self robbing trunk anecdote.
Danny, an errand boy, helps his friend Harry by running messages between exchanges to the broker’s office. Harry struggles on his first relay, boasting a four minute forty seven second trip, while Danny claims he can do it in one minute fifteen seconds every day, revealing a sly initiation prank.
A rich Prussian banker who funded his son’s entry into a guards regiment hosts a lavish dinner. He seats all officers except one, a non noble, provoking quiet revolt. When the missing officer’s absence is noted, the host boasts of a select party, prompting the officers to quietly file out in solidarity.
An English tourist in Brantwool visits a Ruskin bookshop and learns locals know the critic only faintly. A shop attendant describes Ruskin vaguely, noting villagers rarely engage with his writings and joking that she knows him as “the old gentleman who only had a chan collar once a week.”
A West village woman plans both a telephone and a gas range. In a letter to a supplier, her daughter clearly orders the telephone and notes the house lacks gas piping while the street has it. The confusion is noted in the Civic Times item from Winsted, Connecticut.
In a Chicago News style snippet McGinty taunts the judge about a brick assault while hoping the scoundrel would be hanged. The judge questions whether the rival shooter’s fate would have been sealed and the exchange hints at ongoing courtroom bravado.
A Harlem Life snippet shows a family chat with a mother asking if relatives were glad to see the visitors and if they would call again. Johnny confirms and recalls the aunt inviting them to bring the family, including Susie and the dog, next time.
A North Columbus woman meets a former servant who reveals she is married and no longer has a fixed home, highlighting a social stumble about residence and marriage.
The American Bible Society distributes the Scriptures in four languages beyond our own, plus twenty eight European, thirty Asiatic, Oceanic, African languages and dialects, nine American Indian and three South American tongues.
The Transvaal lies about a thousand miles nearer the equator yet records cooler average temperatures than Cape Town. This contrast highlights regional climate variation and suggests altitude or maritime influences offset latitude.
Fuddy-Ronder says he does not consider himself American or English and calls himself a citizen of the world. Duddy replies that he is a foreigner in whatever country he is in, highlighting a view of global identity versus national belonging.
A fragment from the Boston Courter records a kitchen exchange where Maggie explains she prepared chicken broth as ordered and contemplates its use for the chickens. The dialogue reflects domestic routine and regional vernacular in a aged newspaper snippet.
A brief cartoonlike quip from the Indianapotis Press notes a gray hair found this morning and jokes about turning hair gray to soften wrinkles, with a playful exchange between two speakers.
Frank Fyles explains in The Ladies Home Journal how stage realism is achieved without exposing mechanisms. Noise for waiters, rain and wind, lightning with carbon, thunder via terpin balls, carriage wheels with a miniature freight car, and gunfire with dried calf skin. visuals would ruin the illusion if shown.
A whale near 60 years old is inferred from a toggle harpoon embedded in a Bering Sea whale marked Montezuma. The ship later sold to the government and sunk as harbor obstruction. The case, discussed by William H. Dall and Captain E. P. Herendeen, notes uncertainties due to ownership changes and harpoon reuse.
A large elephant pursued by sportsmen in the Straits Settlements repeatedly charged a goods train on a railway line. The elephant forced a standoff for nearly an hour, backing into the engine to shove it backward. The driver then accelerated, and the beast was crushed under a wheel by the locomotive. The guard of a following train ended the ordeal.
A bankruptcy case cites judges as "officers by no means infallible" and notes they sometimes misinterpret the J P abbreviation as "judgment for plaintiff." It also discusses that appointing a person chief builder does not confer ecclesiastical roles, illustrating limits of literal term transitions in legal phrasing.
A kind curate in a Yorkshire parish asks for the prayers of the congregation for Luck Gray. Three Sundays pass with prayers. on the fourth, the clerk reveals Luck Gray is alive but racing in a steeplechase, making the curate a local force.
A fragment recounts a casual encounter in Philadelphia between two individuals, noting a missed handshake due to a departing train and a humorous aside about arm sensation. The piece also mentions goats in India eating lores and greens without harm while warning of a potent acrid juice.
An old telegraph operator recalls a late night message read as a warning to see his brother alive. A San Francisco sender aimed at a man with a long-lost California brother, triggering a wild cross continental chase. The mistaken recipient later learns another man with the same name has a sick California relative. The operator was reassigned before the original man returned.
The piece classifies apples into three kinds sweet sour and unsavory and explains their effects on health and appetite. Sweet apples ease cough quench thirst and nourish while sour apples aid respiration and digestion though can harm memory. raw apples are worst, baked or preserved are best. It cites Philip and Alexander the Great as avid apple lovers, with a note about Macedonians drowning over a fruit in Babylon in 1575.
The New York Telegram reports insects in southern states drink nectar from certain plants, becoming stupefied and disoriented. A scientist tested pollen on himself and felt a faster pulse and higher temperature, then injected blossom extract and grew dizzy. He identified an oil from these plants that affects humans and animals.
A judge of the English high court was arrested on suspicion of burglarious designs on a friend’s Mayfair house. Police charged him with loitering with felonious intent amid skeptical ridicule as an old offender, recalling the judge, exclaimed in surprise. The rogue’s corroboration saved the lordship, who departed in peace.
A fragmentary, dialect snippet describes a man killed by an explosion and his body parts found in separate places, with Mrs. Kelly reacting emotionally. The text mixes humor and tragedy, reflecting a historical newspaper voice and crude local language.
A Philadelphia Press style exchange depicts marital friction over a minor dispute. A wife’s meek surrender contrasts with her husband's exasperation, highlighting the dynamics of household tension and gendered tempers in a brief, dialogue driven snippet.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a shop scene. A customer keeps the clerk waiting while a worried officer or clerk notes economizing with one employee. A woman in the shop contends with short weights as the Tribune is cited in passing.
A jagged OCR line mentions names and places in a partial notice with unclear context. The readable elements include Erie and possible personal names, but the text lacks complete actions or events to define a clear news item.
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